Abstract
RESUMO Esse artigo apresenta hipóteses a respeito da trajetória de Fundação de São Vicente, de Benedito Calixto, pintura incorporada ao acervo do Museu Paulista após as comemorações vicentinas do IV Centenário do Descobrimento do Brasil. Recobram-se, para tanto, os processos de sua encomenda, doação e aquisição definitiva, bem como os sentidos de sua exibição nas exposições elaboradas por Hermann von Ihering e Afonso Taunay para o Museu Paulista.
Highlights
After being solemnly inaugurated during the celebrations of the IV Centennial of the Discovery of Brazil, the painting Fundação de São Vicente, by Benedito Calixto, was incorporated to the collection of the Museu Paulista in November 1900, being appropriated by the successive museographic projects held during the twentieth century
The foundational scene was the second historical painting to be incorporated to the Museu Paulista collection, preceded only by Independência ou Morte, by Pedro Américo Figueiredo de Mello
Representing them in monumental paintings was the raw material for the construction of a celebratory visual narrative about the history of the Brazilian nation that should be seen from the museum's exhibition, at the beginning of the republican regime
Summary
After being solemnly inaugurated during the celebrations of the IV Centennial of the Discovery of Brazil, the painting Fundação de São Vicente (oil on canvas, 385 x 192 cm, 1900) (figure 1), by Benedito Calixto, was incorporated to the collection of the Museu Paulista in November 1900, being appropriated by the successive museographic projects held during the twentieth century. Unlike the commissions that organized the commemorations in Bahia and Rio de Janeiro, which inaugurated public monuments in the honor of Pedro Álvares Cabral's memory, the Vincentians foresaw their perpetuation “[...] the gratitude of the present Vincentian generation to the founders of the Captaincy of São Vicente.” the primary cause was to celebrate the colonial history of São Paulo and, above all, the local history itself: tributaries of the men of the colonizing expedition led by Martim Afonso de Souza, the Vincentians of 1900 tried to assert themselves symbolic and politically by the regional elites and the state presidency. Let's look at the conditions agreed between Calixto and the association
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